Eratosthenes is an English word with synonyms like astronomer or stargazer. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Eratosthenes in a sentence
Eratosthenes meaning
An Ancient Greek polymath at Alexandria, best known for his studies of geography.
Synonyms of Eratosthenes
Using Eratosthenes
- The main meaning on this page is: An Ancient Greek polymath at Alexandria, best known for his studies of geography.
- Useful related words include: astronomer, uranologist, stargazer, mathematician.
- In the example corpus, eratosthenes often appears in combinations such as: of eratosthenes, to eratosthenes, eratosthenes used.
Context around Eratosthenes
- Average sentence length in these examples: 18.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 13 start, 5 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Eratosthenes
- In this selection, "eratosthenes" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 18.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, macrobious, library, book, used, attributed and knowing stand out and add context to how "eratosthenes" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 240 bc eratosthenes used the and addressed to eratosthenes. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "eratosthenes" sits close to words such as aare, aarti and abl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with eratosthenes
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Eratosthenes has quite a different view. (6 words)
Eratosthenes went to Athens to further his studies. (8 words)
It is addressed to Eratosthenes and the mathematicians in Alexandria. (10 words)
Astronomy main Aristarchus of Samos published work on how to determine the sizes and distances of the Sun and the Moon, and Eratosthenes used this work to figure the size of the Earth. (33 words)
However, Eratosthenes used this information together with measurements of the shadow length on the solstice at Alexandria to perform the first known calculation of the circumference of the Earth. (29 words)
He referred to Conon of Samos as his friend, while two of his works ( The Method of Mechanical Theorems and the Cattle Problem ) have introductions addressed to Eratosthenes. (28 words)
Example sentences (20)
In 240 BC, Eratosthenes used the Sieve of Eratosthenes to quickly isolate prime numbers.
The Sieve of Eratosthenes, attributed to Eratosthenes, is a simple method to compute primes, although the large primes found today with computers are not generated this way.
In number theory, he introduced the sieve of Eratosthenes, an efficient method of identifying prime numbers.
According to Macrobious, Eratosthenes made the diameter of the Sun to be about 27 times that of the Earth.
Archimedes dedicated his book The Method to Eratosthenes, knowing his love for learning and mathematics.
Archimedes was Eratosthenes' friend and he, too, worked on the war instrument with mathematics.
As head of the library Eratosthenes tutored the children of Ptolemy, including Ptolemy IV Philopator who became the fourth Ptolemaic pharaoh.
Astronomy main Aristarchus of Samos published work on how to determine the sizes and distances of the Sun and the Moon, and Eratosthenes used this work to figure the size of the Earth.
Eratosthenes constructed a mechanical line drawing device to calculate the cube, called the mesolabio.
Eratosthenes described his famous story of the well in Syene, described above.
Eratosthenes has quite a different view.
Eratosthenes, then thirty years old, accepted Ptolemy's invitation and traveled to Alexandria, where he lived for the rest of his life.
Eratosthenes went to Athens to further his studies.
He referred to Conon of Samos as his friend, while two of his works ( The Method of Mechanical Theorems and the Cattle Problem ) have introductions addressed to Eratosthenes.
Hipparchus apparently made many detailed corrections to the locations and distances mentioned by Eratosthenes.
History The Sieve of Eratosthenes is a simple algorithm for finding all prime numbers up to a specified integer.
However, Eratosthenes used this information together with measurements of the shadow length on the solstice at Alexandria to perform the first known calculation of the circumference of the Earth.
In this book Eratosthenes denounced Homer as not providing any insight into what he now described as geography.
It is addressed to Eratosthenes and the mathematicians in Alexandria.
It was unlikely, even accounting for his extremely primitive measuring tools, that Eratosthenes could have calculated an accurate measurement for the circumference of the Earth.
Common combinations with eratosthenes
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of eratosthenes 4×
- to eratosthenes 4×
- eratosthenes used 3×
- eratosthenes is 2×
- that eratosthenes 2×